Lecture Slides for the Entire Course
Lecture slides are listed below by topic. To read through the slides lecture by lecture instead, click on Lecture Schedule on the class website.
Math 02-01 Scientific Notation – definition 02-02 Scientific Notation – examples 02-03 Rounding off numbers 02-04 Dimensions and Units 02-06 Conversion Factors 13-01 Average and Median values 30-02 Useful Formulas The Scientific Method 05-01 How do we Learn? 10-06 The Scientific Method 10-01 Breaking the Rules of Science – I 10-02 Breaking the Rules of Science – II 10-03 Breaking the Rules of Science – III 10-07 Defining a Straight Line 10-08 Statistics for Laboratory Experiments The Earth, the Moon, and the Sky 05-03 Phases of the Moon – exploration 05-04 Phases of the Moon – evidence 05-06 Phases of the Moon – explanation 06-01 Origin of the Moon 06-02 Gravity 10-05 Measuring the Radius of the Earth 07-01 Seasons on Earth – exploration 07-02 Seasons on Earth – evidence 07-03 Seasons on Earth – clues 07-04 Seasons on Earth – explanation 07-05 Seasons on Earth – model 08-04 Why are Sunsets Red? 08-01 The Celestial Sphere 08-02 The Zodiacal Constellations 08-03 Visualizing the Sky from Earth 12-02 Why is the Sky Dark at Night? The Solar System 09-01 Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion 09-02 Geometry of the Solar System 11-01 An Earth-centered Solar System 11-02 A Sun-centered Solar System 12-01 How Bright is the Sun? 12-03 Radioactive Decay 13-02 The Solar Nebula 13-04 The Epoch of Planet Building The Planets 13-03 Bodies of the Solar System 14-08 What is a Planet? 14-01 The Terrestrial Planets 14-04    Mercury 14-05    Venus 14-02    Earth 14-06    Mars 14-03    Moon 16-17 The Jovian Planets 16-18    The Jovian Moons 16-19    Jupiter 16-20    Saturn 16-21    Uranus 16-22    Neptune 16-23    Pluto	Atoms and Spectra 17-01 Waves – the E-M Spectrum 17-02 Waves – Frequency and Wavelength 17-03 Visualizing Waves 18-01 What are Atoms? 18-02 What do we see from Atoms? 18-03 Quantum Mechanics 19-01 Visible light and Spectra 19-02 Continuum, Absorption & Emission 19-03 Images and Spectra Living Stars 19-04 What defines a Star? 19-05 The Magnitude System of Brightness 20-01 How do we observe a Star? 20-02 Spectral Types and Temperatures 20-03 Spectral Colours 21-01 Nuclear Energy 21-02 Fission 21-03 Fusion 21-04 How does the Sun Burn? 22-01 Doppler Shift 22-02 Binary Stars 23-01 The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram 23-02 Stellar Radii 23-03 Size and the H-R Diagram Dying Stars 24-01 Stellar Death 24-02 End-States for Stars 24-03 White Dwarfs 25-01 Neutron Stars 25-01 Supernovae 25-02 Pulsars 26-01 Black Holes 26-02 Lensing 26-03 Observing Black Holes Galaxies 27-01 The Shapley-Curtis Debate 29-01 Characterizing Galaxies 29-02 Galaxies – Irregulars 29-03 Galaxies – Spirals 29-04 Galaxies – Mergers 29-05 Galaxies – Ellipticals The Universe 01-01 The size of the Universe – I 01-02 The size of the Universe – II 01-03 The size of the Universe – III 04-01 Scale model of the Universe 04-02 The Speed of Light 04-03 The Age of the Universe – I 04-04 The Age of the Universe – II 04-05 The Age of the Universe – III 04-06 The Form of the Universe 27-02 Hubble's Law and Redshift 28-01 Our Three-Dimensional Universe 28-02 Does the Universe have an Edge? 28-03 Space is Curved 28-04 Expansion of the Universe 28-05 Fate of the Universe 28-06 String Theory